Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert with text translated by Randall Jarrell (Caldecott Honor 1972) is a retelling from the Brothers Grimm. I did not like this book, either the translation or the illustrations. The illustrations are infrequent and the text heavy (there is a two-page spread of text and then a

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as translated and illustrated by Wanda Gág is an enjoyable illustrated retelling of the fairy tale, first published in 1938. It is rather text heavy, and the story is morbidly close to the Brother’s Grimm’s account with the witch eating the boar’s heart. But in this version, the black-and-white line

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